Happenings for November 25th – December 6th

8th Grade:

Students this week and next week will be continuing to learn about hand tools, power tools and machines. We will complete learning how these tools are used and safety requirements when using them. I will demonstrate how all items are used with a safety test to be completed on December 6th.

7th Grade:

Students are doing a wonderful job on their architecture project this past week. They will be finishing the drawing of their floor plans by the 26th with hope that they will begin their models after Thanksgiving.

This year students have asked about creating their homes using minecraft. I have had students do this before in the past with great success so this year I am going to add a final component of the architecture unit to allow student to showcase their talents in architecture. Students may create their home in mindcraft or they can focus more on interior design by using another program online called Icovia or they can choose to draw the exterior of the home.

Happenings for November 11th-15th

8th Grade:

We continue this week with our unit on electronics. Students will work in groups of 2-3 to create circuits, test them and then draw the schematics based on the symbols we drew last week. We will have nine circuits to complete this week and ten next week. The circuit sheets and electricity packet will be due next Wednesday. Notebooks will also be due next week.

7th Grade:

We started our new unit on architecture last week and had a demonstration on how to create a room using smallblueprinter.com. This week students will be creating their house using the program which must be finished by Friday. Students who finish early can tkae advantage of the extra credit portion of this assignment by creating a landscape plan along with their floor plan.

THe next part of this unit will be next week in which we will take our plans and draw them to a scale of 1/4″ = 1′ on a parge sheet of paper.

Happenings for November 4th -8th

*Please note that there is no school on Tuesday November 5th.

8th Grade:

Students begin a new unit on electricity this week which will run for about 2 weeks. We will discuss parallel and series circuits and then using electronics kits we will construct circuits and test them and then draw the circuits using symbols.

7th Grade:

Students will be completing their unit on labels this week. Our next unit will be on structures.

Happenings for October 28th – November 1st

*Please note that November 1st is the last day of the marking period.

8th Grade:

This week will finish out our manufacturing activity. We will be completing our commercials and then presenting them to our classmates for review. So far I have seen some really exciting ideas! Keep up the good work 8th grade!

7th Grade:

This week begins our next unit on labels and understanding how products we buy are labeled.

Take a look at this website for more information which we will use in creating a label for a beverage.

https://www.foodpackaginglabels.net/food-packaging-labels-required-information/

Happenings for October 21st-25th

8th Grade:

Students are completing their shoe models this week and will begin the final portion of their unit which is to create a commercial using power point to advertise their shoe company.

*Just a reminder that final notebook check is October 30th (20 points, formative).

• End of the marking period is November 1st!

7th Grade:

Students are completing the poster portion of their font activity and will complete a 3-Dimensional card using their font. This will be the final summative activity for this marking period.

*Just a reminder that the final notebook check is October 31st (20 points)

Happenings for October 14th-18th

8th Grade:

Students are now moving into their next phase of construction which is to build a model of their shoe. Shoe models will be the sme size as the tudents foot and students will have the entire week to work on their shoe.

7th Grade:

Students have completed watching eachothers PSA’s and will soon transition into our new unit on typography. Typography is the study of fonts or how we use text in media such as posters, invitations and web pages.

Happenings for October 7th – 11th

8th Grade:

We continue our activity on manufacturing but this week we are devoted to using Google sketchup to produce a three dimensional object. We are making a turtle sandbox and once that is complete we are going to then take our shoe drawings and create them in Google sketchup as three dimensional objects.

7th Grade:

This week we are completing our PSA commercials. The goal is to finish them on Wednesday and then use Thursday and Friday to show them to the class.

Happenings for September 30th-October 4th

8th Grade:

Students who were at a 70% or below received progress reports on Wednesday as a reminder to turn in late work.

This week focuses on our next unit on manufacturing. This unit will take approximately 5 weeks to complete. We will focus on the six steps of the design process this week to prepare students for how products are manufactured.

7th Grade:

Students who were at a 70% of below received progress reports on Wednesday as a reminder to turn inlate work.

This week we will begin a new unit on how to create a Public Service announcement using power point.

Happenings for Sept 23rd-27th.

8th grade:

Students will begin their new unit on Biotechnology this week. We will construct a model of an artifical hand and then on Friday we will conduct an experiment in which we will spend a school day (from 8-3) without the use of our non-dominate arm.

7th Grade:

Students will be completing their unit on egg crash vehicles this week. Our goal is to test out our vehicles this comng Friday with a raw egg.

Happenings For September 16th-20th

8th Grade:

This week the class will spend half of the week working on their career brochures which has a link on this iblog to download the template.

Later this week we will begin our unit on Biotechnology. Our focus will be on how technology works with the medical field to enhance our senses and how it assists those who have lost a limb. We will create an artificial arm model and spend the school day without the use of the non-dominate arm.

7th Grade:

This week is dedicated to the construction of our egg crash vehicles. Students have been researching materials used to build their vehicle as well as safety devices they need to include in order to keep their raw egg safe on a ramp headed into a barrier.

• Please note Friday is a half a day.